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I'm a rank beginner to the Linux world.

I have been running batch jobs using qsub, qstat and qdel. I did a qstat which returned nothing and I cannot get back to a command prompt.

I've tried to Google this but could not find an answer.

I've tried every combination of keys that I can think would work. Even hacking through the alphabet like ctrl+a,ctrl+b, ctrl+c... etc. Desperate measures I know but I'm up against a project deadline.
I got to ctrl+s and ctrl+t and seem to be getting into more trouble with it.

I've closed my Putty session ( I'm connecting remotely from a Windows 8 machine). When I reconnected I was in the same place... i.e. no prompt.

Can anyone please advise what to do ?

Thanks

CTRL+d ?

Normally with jobs running in batch mode you can use foreground background commands aren't they working anymore?

Thanks for the response.

No crtl+d doesn't work. I slept on this but unfortunately my session didn't time out. It's a public holiday here today so I'll just need to wait another day and get my session cancelled.

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Try Control-Z, then killall qstat or killall kill qstat

Thanks Scott,
Sorry but no joy. Ctrl+z shows up as ^Z but does not give me a prompt. Hence the commands you suggested are not being received by the OS.

Simplest then would be to log into another session and try to kill it that way. If not, then contact your sysadmin.

I emailed the sysadmin who told me there had been some kind of system crash. The machine has now been recovered and I'm OK again.

Thanks very much for your help.

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